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Chicago Blues Festival

Petrillo Music Shell with skyline in the background during the daytime
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Chicago Blues Festival Performers By Year

     

2002

 

19th Annual Festival Tribute to Muddy Waters

May 30    "Rollin and Tumblin"

 

Front Porch
Blues in the Schools/Delta Roots
Featuring the Grant Academy blues babies, Roy Hytower, Billy Branch and the Sons of the Blues The Black Ensemble Theater's, "Muddy Waters: the Hoochie Coochie Man"
Fruteland Jackson
Tyree Neal

 

Crossroads Stage
The amazing Willie Buck
Dave Weld and the Imperial Flames
Gloria Shannon

 

Juke Joint Stage
Jerry Ricks
Eric Noden and the students of Campos High School
J.B. Ritchie Band

 

Route 66 Stage
Myth, Legend, and History
What's the Devil got to do with it? The Life of Peetie Wheatstraw with Paul Garon
The Mystery of Son House and the Lives of the Early Bluesmen With Jerry Ricks and Jim Dickinson

 

Petrillo Music Shell
Nellie"Tiger" Travis and the Men in Black
Lee Shot Williams
North Mississippi All Stars

May 31    "I'm Ready"

 

Front Porch
From Jug Band to Classic Blues
Featuring Eric Noden and the Jug Stompers, Katherine Davis, Erwin Helfer and his Boogie Woogie Ensemble, and the students of Stone and Grant Academy

 

Crossroads Stage
Danny Reed with Ricky Allen
Fred Johnson and his Checkmates
John Brim and the Chicago All Stars

 

Juke Joint Stage
Carey Bell
Big Bill Morganfield
John Mooney with Joe Beard
John Weston

 

Route 66 Stage
Reflecting on Muddy Waters
Moderated by Ralph Metcalfe and members of the Muddy Waters Alumni Association
The Story of Little Walter
Tony Glover, Scott Dirks, and Ward Gaines
The Langston Hughes Centennial Session
Poetics of the Blues with Sterling Plumpp

 

Petrillo Music Shell
Muddy Waters Alumni Association featuring Pinetop Perkins, Carey Bell, Luther Johnson, John Primer, Willie Smith, Calvin "Fuzzy" Jones with special guest James Cotton
James Cotton and his Five Star Band
Bo Diddley reunited with Billy Boy Arnold, Jody Williams, Clifton James, Ken Saydak and Robert Stroger

June 1    "I Feel Like Goin' Home"

 

Front Porch
Sunnyland Slim Memorial Piano Set featuring Detroit jr. and David Maxwell
CeDell Davis
David Honey Boy Edwards and Homesick James with Steve Arvey and Jon McDonald
Super Chikan

 

Crossroads Stage
Phil Guy and his Chicago Blues Machine
LeRoy Parnell
W.C. Clark

 

Juke Joint Stage
Johnny B. Moore
Super Chikan
Paul Oscher
Jerry Ricks

 

Route 66 Stage
Muddy Waters in Print
Robert Gordon and Peter Guralnick in discussion - Reissuing the Classics
Bob Porter, Larry Cohn, Chris Strachwitz, and Lawrence Hoffman
The Living Blues Interviews - Jim O'Neal and Amy Van Single

 

Petrillo Music Shell
Johnny B. Moore
Jelly Roll Kings Revisited featuring Jack Johnson, Sam Carr and special guest John Weston
Shemkia Copeland

June 2

 

Front Porch
"Po Lazarus" with the Carter Singers celebrating James Carter
Devil in the Woodpile
Jessie and her Band
Remembering Skip James, and a fond farewell to John Jackson featuring Cephas and Wiggins with Jerry Ricks Louisiana Red and his Chicago Blues Band

 

Crossroads Stage
Sammy Fender and his Blues Masters
Shirley Johnson

 

Juke Joint Stage
Jerry Ricks
Cephas and Wiggins
Tony Rogers and son
Louisiana Red

 

Route 66 Stage
All the Wives Club
State of the Blues

 

Petrillo Music Shell
Johnnie Mae Dunson
Jimmy Dawkins
Betty LaVette
Blood Ulmer/Vernon Reid Sun Sessions

 
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